A man left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl.A man left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl.A man left by his wife gets drunk and marries a chorus girl.
William H. O'Brien
- Butler
- (uncredited)
Buddy Roosevelt
- Chauffeur
- (uncredited)
Storyline
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- TriviaOne of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Anybody's Woman (1981)
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I Love Pansy Gray
"Anybody's woman" as a term means a woman that could be had for whatever it is she was looking for: a kiss, money, jewels, a good time. Should a man give her what she desired and she was his, this would make her anybody's woman. That wasn't Pansy Gray (Ruth Chatterton).
I realize that I love movies with strong female characters. I'm not talking physically strong and can beat up everyone because I generally dislike those movies. I'm talking mentally and emotionally strong, and having strong character. Ruth Chatterton has played a strong woman several times: "Charming Sinners," "Sarah and Son," and "Frisco Jenny" all come to mind, but I think her character Pansy Gray in "Anybody's Woman" was the strongest.
One night a very drunk Neil Dunlap (Clive Brook) pestered Pansy into marrying him. I know what you're thinking, "What kind of "strong woman" would be pestered into marrying a guy she doesn't even know?" I was thinking the same thing at first, but Pansy had her reasons.
When Neil woke up the next morning he had no idea that he'd gotten married the night before. He asked the most obvious question of Pansy which was did she want money.
Pansy didn't want money and she didn't want a divorce. She wanted the opportunity to make a good name for herself. She was a working girl who'd been arrested for indecent exposure on stage, and marrying a well-to-do man like Neil would afford her the opportunity to fix her image. She consented to any arrangement Neil wanted so long as he allowed her to remain married and repair her reputation.
Pansy proved to be a stand up woman and wife. When Neil's rich, entitled, grubby clients got handsy with her she didn't hold back. Her behavior was out of bounds for a society crowd, but it was exactly what most men would want: a woman who can thwart unwelcomed advances.
She would have to get most assertive with Gustave Saxon (Paul Lukas), Neil's best and wealthiest client. He made wild and unsubstantiated assumptions about her sexuality and pressed up on her a little too much. I don't know a husband that would not have respected her actions, but her husband,Nei,l was from a different social sphere. He gave benefits of any doubts to his client and not his unsophisticated wife.
Pansy was the best mistake Neil ever made. He was a sloppy drunk because his wife left him for a richer man, and Pansy dried him out. She forced him to sober up and get his business affairs in order. And what was just as good was that she never assumed that proper, pompous, pretentious manner of speaking or behaving. She was a girl from the street, but that didn't mean she was easy or that she'd go for any dude with dough. In fact, she had more self-respect, decency, and faithfulness than MOST of the cultured women depicted on screen in the 30's. She was more than Neil could've asked for. She could've parlayed her new status into a relationship with more affluent men such as Neil's client Gustave Saxon (Paul Lukas), but that wasn't the type of woman she was.
You had to love Pansy. She was down to earth and a good person without being angelic. She was a woman the ordinary Joe can relate to without being foul or loose and if Neil couldn't realize what he had he was the loser, not her. Pansy was great and she wasn't just anybody's woman.
I realize that I love movies with strong female characters. I'm not talking physically strong and can beat up everyone because I generally dislike those movies. I'm talking mentally and emotionally strong, and having strong character. Ruth Chatterton has played a strong woman several times: "Charming Sinners," "Sarah and Son," and "Frisco Jenny" all come to mind, but I think her character Pansy Gray in "Anybody's Woman" was the strongest.
One night a very drunk Neil Dunlap (Clive Brook) pestered Pansy into marrying him. I know what you're thinking, "What kind of "strong woman" would be pestered into marrying a guy she doesn't even know?" I was thinking the same thing at first, but Pansy had her reasons.
When Neil woke up the next morning he had no idea that he'd gotten married the night before. He asked the most obvious question of Pansy which was did she want money.
Pansy didn't want money and she didn't want a divorce. She wanted the opportunity to make a good name for herself. She was a working girl who'd been arrested for indecent exposure on stage, and marrying a well-to-do man like Neil would afford her the opportunity to fix her image. She consented to any arrangement Neil wanted so long as he allowed her to remain married and repair her reputation.
Pansy proved to be a stand up woman and wife. When Neil's rich, entitled, grubby clients got handsy with her she didn't hold back. Her behavior was out of bounds for a society crowd, but it was exactly what most men would want: a woman who can thwart unwelcomed advances.
She would have to get most assertive with Gustave Saxon (Paul Lukas), Neil's best and wealthiest client. He made wild and unsubstantiated assumptions about her sexuality and pressed up on her a little too much. I don't know a husband that would not have respected her actions, but her husband,Nei,l was from a different social sphere. He gave benefits of any doubts to his client and not his unsophisticated wife.
Pansy was the best mistake Neil ever made. He was a sloppy drunk because his wife left him for a richer man, and Pansy dried him out. She forced him to sober up and get his business affairs in order. And what was just as good was that she never assumed that proper, pompous, pretentious manner of speaking or behaving. She was a girl from the street, but that didn't mean she was easy or that she'd go for any dude with dough. In fact, she had more self-respect, decency, and faithfulness than MOST of the cultured women depicted on screen in the 30's. She was more than Neil could've asked for. She could've parlayed her new status into a relationship with more affluent men such as Neil's client Gustave Saxon (Paul Lukas), but that wasn't the type of woman she was.
You had to love Pansy. She was down to earth and a good person without being angelic. She was a woman the ordinary Joe can relate to without being foul or loose and if Neil couldn't realize what he had he was the loser, not her. Pansy was great and she wasn't just anybody's woman.
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